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Show (Slasoes ScfootiJisIarif By ROSELYN KIRK Two courses one an assertive as-sertive training class and the other a juvenile alcohol school will begin within the next month under the direction of the Family and Comprehensive Comprehen-sive Mental Health Center Both classes are scheduled for the Layton Center. THE assertive training class, scheduled to begin on Dec. 14, will be taught by Elaine Ellis, a psychiatric ,hn daua thp rlass is designed to give class members a "feeling of con- -fidence and control and an attitude of controlling their own lives." Ms. Ellis said the first series, which will last eight weeks, will be limited to members of the Layton Center, but that later classes will be open to the community. com-munity. SHE SAID the assertive training technique began as a part of the women's movement and are explained in such books as "When I Say No I Feel Guilty" and "Assertive "As-sertive Woman." She said the class will teach techniques and use role playing exercises so that students will have a success experience. "They will learn how to say no to salesmen and how to respond to party invitations when they don't really feel like accepting." ANOTHER class taught at the center, which will begin on Jan. 3, will initiate a new concept in education for Juveniles who have been referred from the juvenile court for alcohol-related problems. Jack Russell, consultant and education director at the Mental Health Center, said the class will include the juvenile and his parents, or at least one parent. The program, which has been perfected through the Second District Juvenile Court in Salt Lake City, "won't present alcohol al-cohol as a moral issue," he said. CLASS members, who will be ordered to attend by the First District Juvenile Court in Farmington, will all be alcohol al-cohol offenders charged with possession, driving under the influence or similar alcohol charges. Mr. Russell said the general philosophy of the class is "not to talk about alcohol al-cohol as being either bad or good, but to show the positive and negative consequences of alcohol use and point out that it is illegal for minors to consume con-sume alcohol." MR. RUSSELL said the mental health department sees a need for the class since in 1976, 248 Juveniles were referred to alcohol possession by the First District Juvenile Court. Twenty-two were referred for public intoxication intoxica-tion and three on charges of a mr being in a lave According to Mr Parents and juvenile, i11 signed to uw .Wl" W discussion M include parent".:" butno juvenile signed to a group with hi!jH Parent. Animated mw3 scheduled as a du?, H teaching methoS,' H THE CLASS will Inclu. J if the juvenile, have ai3 by the knowledge, tccM to Mr. Russell Wr" |